“I think we will reach a satisfactory outcome for both sides,” he said, without elaborating.

Turman also said Slater “hopes to return to the aviation field” — even saying his client wanted to return to JetBlue.

This comes as passengers recounted today how Slater evacuated by emergency slide after an apparent tussle over an oversized bag, saying that he may have suffered his head wound before boarding the plane.

“When I got on the flight, he was sitting near the exit row… He already had a cut on his head and it was bleeding.,” said Lauren Wood. “And, he just said, ‘You won’t believe the day that I had,’ and that was right at the beginning of the flight when I boarded.”